| Meeting Program |
| Friday 20 June | |||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast | ||
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
D. Luest
(Humboldt U.) |
Intersecting brane worlds -- a path to the Standard Model | Lectures in pdf |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
D. Luest
(Humboldt U.) |
Intersecting brane worlds -- a path to the Standard Model | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:30 - 12:30 |
I. Antoniadis
(CERN) |
Physics of low-scale string theories | Lectures in pdf |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch | ||
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Discussion Session | ||
| Seminars (Abstracts) | |||
| 18:00 - 18:30 |
P. West
(Kings College) |
Symmetries of M theory | Lectures in pdf |
| 18:30 - 18:45 | Coffee Break | ||
| 18:45 - 19:15 |
S. F. Hassan
(Stockholm U.) |
N=1 Open String Boundary Couplings and Worldvolume Covariance | Lectures in pdf |
| 21:00 | Dinner | ||
| Saturday 21 June | |||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast | ||
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
I. Antoniadis
(CERN) |
Physics of low-scale string theories | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
G. Veneziano
(CERN) |
Superstring Cosmology: Concepts and Consequences | Lectures in pdf |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:30 - 12:30 |
G. Veneziano
(CERN) |
Superstring Cosmology: Concepts and Consequences | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch | ||
| 17:00 - 18:00 |
T. Banks
(U. C. Santa Cruz, Rutgers U.) |
Asymptotic Darkness and the Structure of Theories of Quantum Gravity | Lectures in pdf |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Discussion Session | ||
| 19:00 - 19:15 | Coffee Break | ||
| Seminars (Abstracts) | |||
| 19:45 - 20:15 |
G. D' Appollonio
(U. Paris IV) |
String interactions in a gravitational wave background | Lectures in pdf |
| 20:15 - 20:45 |
B. Kol
(Hebrew U) |
Black-hole black-string transition and cosmological singularities | Lectures in pdf |
| 21:00 | Dinner | ||
| Sunday 22 June | |||
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Breakfast | ||
| 10:30 - 12:00 |
A. Schwimmer
(Weizmann) |
N=1 SUSY gauge theories, Matrix models and String Theory | Lectures in pdf |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 12:30 - 14:00 |
R. Gopakumar
(Harish-Chandra Research I.) |
N=1 SUSY gauge theories, Matrix models and String Theory | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Lunch | ||
| 17:00 - 18:00 |
T. Banks
(U. C. Santa Cruz, Rutgers U.) |
Asymptotic Darkness and the Structure of Theories of Quantum Gravity | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Discussion Session | ||
| 19:00 - 19:15 | Coffee Break | ||
| Seminars (Abstracts) | |||
| 19:15 - 19:45 |
D. Israel
(ENS) |
Superstrings on NS5 backgrounds, deformed AdS3 and holography | Lectures in pdf |
| 19:45 - 20:15 |
L. Baulieu
(LPTHE, U. Paris VI & VII) |
Topological and particle phases in supergravity | Lectures in pdf |
| 20:15 - 20:45 |
J. Sonnenschein
(Tel Aviv U.) |
Supergravity Probing of Mesons of Confining Gauge Theories | Lectures in pdf |
| 21:00 | Dinner | ||
| Monday 23 June | |||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
R. Gopakumar
(Harish-Chandra Research I.) |
N=1 SUSY gauge theories, Matrix models and String Theory | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
S. Elitzur
(Hebrew U.) |
Time depended Backgrounds in String Theory | Lectures in pdf |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:30 - 12:30 |
S. Elitzur
(Hebrew U.) |
Time depended Backgrounds in String Theory | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch | ||
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Discussion Session | ||
| Seminars (Abstracts) | |||
| 18:30 - 19:00 |
O. Bergman
(Technion) |
Branes and quantum Hall dynamics in various dimensions | Lectures in pdf |
| 19:00 - 19:15 | Coffee Break | ||
| 19:15 - 19:45 |
J. David
(ASICTP) |
Konishi anomaly approach to gravitational F-terms. | Lectures in pdf |
| 19:45 - 20:15 |
E. Lopez
(U. Autonoma de Madrid) |
Closed string tachyons and noncommutative instabilities | Lectures in pdf |
| 20:15 - 20:45 |
G. Savvidy
(Demokritos) |
Tensionless supersrings and AdS correspondance | Lectures in pdf |
| 21:00 | Dinner | ||
| Tuesday 24 June | |||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast | ||
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
S. Sarkar
(Oxford) |
Cosmology in Wonderland | Lectures in pdf |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
S. Sarkar
(Oxford) |
Cosmology in Wonderland | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:30 - 12:30 |
C. Kounnas
(ENS) |
String ideas in Cosmology | Lectures in pdf |
| 14:45-20:00 | Excursion to Chania | ||
| Wednesday 25 June | |||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast | ||
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
S. Trivedi
(Tata I.) |
Flux Compactifications in String Theory | Lectures in pdf |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
S. Trivedi
(Tata I.) |
Flux Compactifications in String Theory | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:30 - 12:30 |
A. Dabholkar
(Tata I.) |
Duality Twists, Orbifolds, and Fluxes | Lectures in pdf |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch | ||
| 17:00 - 18:00 |
A. Dabholkar
(Tata I.) |
Duality Twists, Orbifolds, and Fluxes | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Discussion Session | ||
| 19:00 - 19:15 | Coffee Break | ||
| Seminars (Abstracts) | |||
| 19:15 - 19:45 |
A. Polychronakos
(Ioannina U. and CUNY) |
Entropy, area and ringing modes of black holes | Lectures in pdf |
| 19:45 - 20:15 |
A. Kehagias
(NTUA) |
Anomaly Free 6D brane worlds | Lectures in pdf |
| 20:15 - 20:45 |
Y. Oz
(Tel Aviv U) |
Aspects of N=2 Strings | Lectures in pdf |
| 21:00 | CONFERENCE BANQUET | ||
| Thursday 26 June | |||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast | ||
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
S. Minwalla
(Harvard) |
The Hagedorn / Deconfinement Phase Transition in Weakly Coupled Large N Gauge Theories | Lectures in pdf |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
S. Minwalla
(Harvard) |
The Hagedorn / Deconfinement Phase Transition in Weakly Coupled Large N Gauge Theories | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:30 - 12:30 |
O. Aharony
(Weizmann) |
The Hagedorn / Deconfinement Phase Transition in Weakly Coupled Large N Gauge Theories | Lectures in pdf |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch | ||
| 17:00 - 18:00 |
O. Aharony
(Weizmann) |
The Hagedorn / Deconfinement Phase Transition in Weakly Coupled Large N Gauge Theories | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Discussion Session | ||
| 19:00 - 19:15 | Coffee Break | ||
| Seminars (Abstracts) | |||
| 19:15 - 19:45 |
M. Petropoulos
(CPHT Ecole Polytechnique) |
Five-brane configurations,CFTs and the strong coupling problem | Lectures in pdf |
| 19:45 - 20:15 |
R. Gopakumar
(Harish-Chandra Research I.) |
From free-fields to AdS | Lectures in pdf |
| 20:15 - 21:00 |
Discussion
|
String Theory: Is there any future? | |
| 21:00 | Dinner | ||
| Friday 27 June | |||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast | ||
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
G. Papadopoulos
(Kings College) |
Strings and Waves | Lectures in pdf |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
G. Papadopoulos
(Kings College) |
Strings and Waves | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:30 - 12:30 |
S. Govindarajan
(IIT, Madras) |
D-branes on Calabi Yau Manifolds | Lectures in pdf |
| 12:30 - 13:00 |
C. Hull
(Queen Mary, U. of London) |
Holonomy and Symmetry in M-theory | Lectures in pdf |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Discussion Session | ||
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Lunch | ||
| 21:00 | Dinner | ||